WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 And now Chrysler presents Plague from Space, starring Gene Raymond. 00:30.000 --> 00:37.000 Ah, come in. 00:37.000 --> 00:39.000 Ah, it's you. 00:39.000 --> 00:42.000 Any word yet? 00:42.000 --> 00:44.000 No, nothing. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 There's a storm off the east coast. 00:47.000 --> 00:50.000 Might have delayed him, maybe even turned back. 00:50.000 --> 00:52.000 He'll be here. 00:52.000 --> 00:56.000 General Bonamede says he'll arrive at a specific time. 00:56.000 --> 00:58.000 He arrives. 00:58.000 --> 01:01.000 Especially when there's a replacement to be made. 01:01.000 --> 01:04.000 Jeff, about those crashes. I think if I speak to General Bonamede... 01:04.000 --> 01:07.000 You stay out of it. You're a doctor, nothing else. 01:07.000 --> 01:09.000 This is my affair. 01:09.000 --> 01:12.000 Men killed, equipment destroyed. 01:12.000 --> 01:15.000 It's been going on for months. 01:15.000 --> 01:17.000 He has every right to relieve me. 01:17.000 --> 01:19.000 I've lost all respect, all discipline. 01:19.000 --> 01:22.000 No, you haven't, Jeff. Those accidents weren't your fault. 01:22.000 --> 01:23.000 Everybody knows that. 01:23.000 --> 01:27.000 It happened to me, my command, my responsibility. 01:27.000 --> 01:30.000 Somewhere along the line, I lost my perspective. 01:30.000 --> 01:33.000 Jeff, you're the best tactician on this command. 01:33.000 --> 01:35.000 General Bonamede won't let you go. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.000 Stop giving yourself a hard time. 01:37.000 --> 01:41.000 Chinook's a big base. Maybe too big for me. 01:41.000 --> 01:45.000 Once I had it, once I could have handled any base. 01:45.000 --> 01:50.000 Now, slipping away. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 What's going on out there? 01:52.000 --> 01:53.000 It's that disk again. 01:53.000 --> 01:56.000 The one we picked up on radar a few hours ago. 01:56.000 --> 01:58.000 It's been returned. 01:58.000 --> 02:02.000 How many times do I have to tell them this is an Air Force base, not a planetarium? 02:02.000 --> 02:04.000 Jeff, this thing's been playing hide-and-seek all night. 02:04.000 --> 02:09.000 We picked it up at 70,000 feet, going along at 2,000 miles an hour. 02:09.000 --> 02:10.000 What, that's enough of a flight of innocence? 02:10.000 --> 02:13.000 Yeah, that's all I need when Bonamede gets here. 02:13.000 --> 02:16.000 My best jet's off chasing a meteorite. No, thanks. 02:16.000 --> 02:21.000 There's Colonel Ward. Now, quiet down out there, all of you, and get this. 02:21.000 --> 02:26.000 The next man who reports a flying saucer will be broken by me personally. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 I'm tired of all this horseplay. 02:28.000 --> 02:34.000 This is an Air Force base. Now, get on the ball. 02:34.000 --> 02:39.000 If they realize what I'm sweating out here, if they understand... 02:39.000 --> 02:41.000 Jeff, that's not going to help. 02:41.000 --> 02:44.000 Mind your own business, Captain. 02:44.000 --> 02:46.000 Yes, sir. 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Wait a minute. 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 I'm sorry. I didn't mean it that way. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 Sit down. 02:53.000 --> 02:55.000 I got to talk to someone. 02:55.000 --> 02:57.000 Okay, Jeff. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Your building is out of proportion. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 General Bonamede's visits are routine. 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 You don't know the symptoms. 03:03.000 --> 03:07.000 He's been hearing stories about Chinnock's commanding officer. 03:07.000 --> 03:11.000 Drinking too much, derelict in his duties. This is the checkup. 03:11.000 --> 03:12.000 Ah, you're guessing. 03:12.000 --> 03:16.000 Now I know him. I studied with him too long. I used to be his protege. 03:16.000 --> 03:18.000 Yeah. 03:18.000 --> 03:21.000 I was going to be a great Air Force man one day. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Yeah. 03:24.000 --> 03:26.000 Look at me. 03:26.000 --> 03:31.000 My wife's dead in a crash, my command slipping away. 03:31.000 --> 03:34.000 My whole life's blacking out in a whiskey bottle. 03:34.000 --> 03:36.000 Colonel. Colonel Worst. 03:36.000 --> 03:38.000 Sorry, sir, but the missile we've been tracking on radar... 03:38.000 --> 03:40.000 I gave strict orders! 03:40.000 --> 03:42.000 I know, sir. The tower reports it just buzzed the field. 03:42.000 --> 03:46.000 It's been swinging at a hundred mile arc, reducing speed. About Mach 1. 03:46.000 --> 03:48.000 This is some kind of joke, sir. 03:48.000 --> 03:52.000 The boat's coming down. It's going to land near the base. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 This I gotta see. 03:55.000 --> 03:56.000 This is Tarr. 03:56.000 --> 03:57.000 All on one. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 I'll give him the briefs. I'll find off the east speed. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 I don't know why I always say that. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 It's going down rapidly. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 What is it, Colonel? 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 Holy Hannah. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 That looks like an arrow. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Or a pin. 04:12.000 --> 04:15.000 And no wings, no exhaust. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.000 It's going to land, all right. Hawkins? 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 Yes, sir. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Round up the demolition squad. Bring that thing into hangar 7. 04:19.000 --> 04:20.000 Right, sir. 04:20.000 --> 04:21.000 Copper Turner? 04:21.000 --> 04:22.000 Yes, sir. 04:22.000 --> 04:24.000 I want all crash equipment on the spot as soon as it touches down. 04:24.000 --> 04:27.000 Yes, sir. And notify all units this field is closed. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 Cancel all flights. Order all incoming planes to another base. 04:30.000 --> 04:31.000 Sir, General Barnaby. 04:31.000 --> 04:32.000 What's his ETA? 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 22-17. He's due in 12 minutes. 04:34.000 --> 04:36.000 You have my orders, Corporal. 04:36.000 --> 04:38.000 I'm not taking any chances until I know what we're dealing with. 04:38.000 --> 04:39.000 Keep him up there. 04:39.000 --> 04:40.000 Hutch? 04:40.000 --> 04:42.000 Get me a command, Kyle. I want to be there when they bring him in. 04:42.000 --> 04:44.000 Right, Colonel. Right. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 Come on, Hutch. 04:47.000 --> 04:48.000 Yes, sir. 04:48.000 --> 04:50.000 Forget what I said in there. One of my bad modes. 04:50.000 --> 04:51.000 Forgotten, Jeff. 04:51.000 --> 04:53.000 Attention all units. Attention all units. 04:53.000 --> 04:56.000 Cancel all flights as of 22-05. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Cancel all leaves and passes. 04:58.000 --> 05:01.000 All personnel stand by for emergency instructions. 05:01.000 --> 05:02.000 Repeat. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Cancel all flights as of 22-05. 05:04.000 --> 05:07.000 All personnel stand by for emergency instructions. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 Cancel all leaves and passes. 05:09.000 --> 05:10.000 Repeat. 05:10.000 --> 05:12.000 Cancel all leaves and passes. 05:12.000 --> 05:15.000 This field is closed until further notification. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 Cancel all leaves and passes. 05:17.000 --> 05:18.000 Cancel all flights as of 22-05. 05:18.000 --> 05:20.000 I want this hangar cleared immediately. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Any man not assigned to this detail, beat it. 05:23.000 --> 05:25.000 Now, this isn't a freak show. 05:25.000 --> 05:27.000 Hey, you. You. Stand back there. 05:27.000 --> 05:30.000 That gizmo might be anything. It might explode for all we know. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Now, let's clear this hangar. 05:33.000 --> 05:37.000 All personnel stays out of here until a Dynacon checks that thing over. 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 Sergeant, I want a man posted on every door. 05:41.000 --> 05:43.000 Now, let's clear out. 05:43.000 --> 05:46.000 And that means you, Mullins, and close those doors. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 How's it coming, Hoss? 05:48.000 --> 05:50.000 Oh, pretty well, sir. 05:52.000 --> 05:53.000 What now, sir? 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 Now, I have to move in with that Dynacon. 05:55.000 --> 05:56.000 I want the sound reading started. 05:56.000 --> 05:58.000 I want every sound listed. 05:58.000 --> 06:00.000 Shiller, start recording. 06:00.000 --> 06:02.000 Okay, Lieutenant. 06:02.000 --> 06:04.000 Let's go, pal. 06:04.000 --> 06:07.000 Come on, jazz it up, jazz it up. It isn't going to bite you. 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 What do you make of it, Hawkins? 06:15.000 --> 06:17.000 Well, it isn't one of ours, that's for sure, sir. 06:17.000 --> 06:18.000 No airfoils, no rocket suits. 06:18.000 --> 06:20.000 First Dynacon reading negative. 06:20.000 --> 06:22.000 Second Dynacon reading negative. 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 Lieutenant, there's an inscription on the note. 06:24.000 --> 06:25.000 Can you make it out? 06:25.000 --> 06:26.000 Never seen it before. 06:26.000 --> 06:28.000 Get a picture of it and phototype it to Washington. 06:28.000 --> 06:30.000 Then get a cryptographer down here immediately. 06:30.000 --> 06:32.000 I want that code broken. 06:32.000 --> 06:33.000 How about opening it up? 06:33.000 --> 06:34.000 No, no. 06:34.000 --> 06:36.000 Before anyone gets frisky and blows up this field, 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 we're getting an impression of that script to Washington. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 That chip's not to be touched until we've broken the code, understand? 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 And double a guard around this area. 06:43.000 --> 06:44.000 Yes, sir. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Colonel Ward. 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 Now, I need to contact General Bonomy. 06:47.000 --> 06:49.000 He's over the field now, waiting landing instructions. 06:49.000 --> 06:50.000 He's on now. 06:51.000 --> 06:53.000 Colonel Ward, General Bonomy, go ahead. 06:53.000 --> 06:54.000 That you, Ward? 06:54.000 --> 06:55.000 What's happening down there? 06:55.000 --> 06:56.000 Give me landing instructions. 06:56.000 --> 07:00.000 I'm sorry, sir, but I want more information on our night visitor. 07:00.000 --> 07:01.000 You'll have to go on to San Raymond's. 07:01.000 --> 07:03.000 This field is 100% restricted. 07:03.000 --> 07:05.000 Ward, I'll not be sidetracked. 07:05.000 --> 07:06.000 This plane is landing. 07:07.000 --> 07:08.000 Now, get this, General. 07:08.000 --> 07:10.000 I've notified Max and flight service. 07:10.000 --> 07:13.000 If you touch a wheel to Kinnock, I'll have to slap you in the guardhouse. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 I'm still CO here. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 I'm not taking any risks till I know what we've got. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Hawkins, get me down on the floor. 07:20.000 --> 07:26.000 I'll break you for this, Ward. 07:26.000 --> 07:29.000 You'll be relieved of command as soon as I get back to Washington. 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 I promise you that. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 I'm sorry, General. 07:31.000 --> 07:33.000 The orders still stand over and out. 07:36.000 --> 07:37.000 All right, carry on. 07:37.000 --> 07:38.000 It's my show from here on in. 07:38.000 --> 07:39.000 Yes, sir. 07:39.000 --> 07:41.000 Have that cryptographer report to me as soon as he breaks the code. 07:41.000 --> 07:42.000 Yes, sir. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 Keep checking, Hawkins. 07:43.000 --> 07:44.000 Yes, sir. 07:45.000 --> 07:47.000 It's just midnight. 07:47.000 --> 07:48.000 All right. 07:50.000 --> 07:51.000 Okay, you guys. 07:51.000 --> 07:53.000 Let's get those Dinocon readings speeded up. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.000 What do you think this is, a tea party? 07:55.000 --> 07:57.000 Now, get that mesoscope ready. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 I want you to check every vibration. 08:00.000 --> 08:01.000 Now, come on, come on. 08:01.000 --> 08:02.000 Get the lead out. 08:02.000 --> 08:03.000 Get the lead out. 08:11.000 --> 08:13.000 I lose 700 and still no report. 08:13.000 --> 08:17.000 That cryptographer must be working my way up China. 08:17.000 --> 08:20.000 Bonamede should have reached Washington by now. 08:20.000 --> 08:22.000 His TWX ought to be arriving any minute. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Jeff, maybe you acted a little too hastily. 08:24.000 --> 08:27.000 No, this time I was right. 08:27.000 --> 08:30.000 A missile arriving out of nowhere. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Tremendous speed, no means of identification. 08:32.000 --> 08:34.000 Could be a million things. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Hydrogen bomb, poison gas. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 No, Bonamede would have done the same thing in my shoes. 08:39.000 --> 08:41.000 Come in. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 Sir, his TWX just came through from Washington. 08:44.000 --> 08:45.000 Ah. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 Here she goes. 08:48.000 --> 08:53.000 You are hereby notified that Colonel Maurice Johns is arriving at 1400 today 08:53.000 --> 08:56.000 to assume command of Kenock Air Force Base. 08:56.000 --> 08:59.000 You will remain on the post for further orders. 08:59.000 --> 09:00.000 Signed, Bonamede. 09:02.000 --> 09:05.000 Well, it had to come sometime. 09:05.000 --> 09:12.000 Come in, come in. 09:13.000 --> 09:14.000 Photography? 09:14.000 --> 09:15.000 About time. 09:15.000 --> 09:17.000 Is it breaking? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 Here, read that. 09:28.000 --> 09:29.000 Are they sure about this? 09:29.000 --> 09:32.000 These boys know their business. 09:32.000 --> 09:33.000 From another planet? 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 It's impossible. It couldn't happen. 09:35.000 --> 09:38.000 Corporal, get this off General Bonamede. 09:38.000 --> 09:41.000 TWX received contents noted, period. 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 Missile script has been deciphered, period. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 We believe it to be Martian, period. 09:45.000 --> 09:48.000 I'm directing demolition to open it up immediately, period. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.000 Signed, Ward. 09:53.000 --> 09:55.000 Did he say Martian? 09:55.000 --> 09:56.000 That's right, Corporal. 09:56.000 --> 10:03.000 We hit the jackpot. 10:03.000 --> 10:06.000 Come on, come on, bring that baby back. 10:06.000 --> 10:08.000 We ain't got all day. It's been over an hour. 10:08.000 --> 10:10.000 That's not on par with the real deal. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 It's not. 10:11.000 --> 10:12.000 Okay, take us to Black Isle. 10:12.000 --> 10:13.000 Any luck yet, Hawkins? 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 Good to see you, sir. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 That's nothing like nothing I've ever seen. 10:16.000 --> 10:18.000 Lieutenant, I think I found something. 10:18.000 --> 10:19.000 It's a door. 10:19.000 --> 10:21.000 It's right in front of us, a door. 10:21.000 --> 10:23.000 Good, good, good. 10:23.000 --> 10:26.000 Give me that jimmy and we'll pry it open. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Yeah, this is what we needed. 10:30.000 --> 10:32.000 Now go easy now, it might be dangerous. 10:32.000 --> 10:34.000 Carefully, carefully. 10:34.000 --> 10:35.000 That's it. 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 Alright, now pull it back. 10:38.000 --> 10:41.000 Slowly, slowly. 10:41.000 --> 10:42.000 Lift it up. 10:42.000 --> 10:43.000 That's it. 10:43.000 --> 10:44.000 Something inside. 10:44.000 --> 10:45.000 I can see it. 10:45.000 --> 10:46.000 I can see. 10:46.000 --> 10:47.000 It's stuck to the bulkhead. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 If I could just... 10:49.000 --> 10:50.000 Oh my. 10:50.000 --> 10:51.000 What is it? 10:51.000 --> 10:53.000 It's alive, sir, it's breathing. 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 Something got to give it a metal mask. 10:54.000 --> 10:55.000 It's moving. 10:55.000 --> 10:56.000 I can... 10:56.000 --> 10:57.000 It's got eyes. 10:57.000 --> 10:58.000 Everything. 10:58.000 --> 10:59.000 Get an eye bill, it's down here. 10:59.000 --> 11:01.000 This is something I didn't bargain for. 11:01.000 --> 11:04.000 Captain, help me get it out. 11:04.000 --> 11:05.000 Alright. 11:05.000 --> 11:06.000 Slowly. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Slowly, that's it. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 Let's get it out to the light so we can see it. 11:10.000 --> 11:11.000 Slow. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.000 Come on. 11:13.000 --> 11:14.000 Add to it a little more. 11:14.000 --> 11:16.000 Pour it to the light. 11:16.000 --> 11:17.000 There. 11:17.000 --> 11:46.000 Now we can all get a look. 11:46.000 --> 11:51.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I have the honor to present Admiral Harley Cope, 11:51.000 --> 11:55.000 representing the Commander-in-Chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 11:55.000 --> 12:00.000 Mr. Toby Stern, President of the Jack Chrysler Manufacturing Corporation, 12:00.000 --> 12:08.000 and Mr. F.E. 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It would sound logical. 15:22.000 --> 15:27.000 Well, we've established this thing at the hospital as a Martian. 15:27.000 --> 15:30.000 He sails in here polluted with an unknown disease. 15:30.000 --> 15:32.000 Deduction? 15:32.000 --> 15:34.000 Disease warfare. 15:34.000 --> 15:36.000 That is crazy, Colonel. 15:36.000 --> 15:38.000 Is it? 15:38.000 --> 15:39.000 Yeah. 15:39.000 --> 15:41.000 Hutch sent this down from the hospital. 15:41.000 --> 15:45.000 It's a photograph of a blood smear taken of the Martian a few minutes after it arrived. 15:45.000 --> 15:49.000 See those U-shaped specks in the bloodstream there? 15:49.000 --> 15:50.000 Yeah, what about them? 15:50.000 --> 15:54.000 Hutch reported that kind of bacteria was all over the Martian. 15:54.000 --> 15:55.000 Everywhere. 15:55.000 --> 16:00.000 Every cubic millimeter of blood taken from that creature contained about 5,000 of those specks. 16:00.000 --> 16:02.000 That doesn't prove anything, Colonel. 16:02.000 --> 16:04.000 Don't you get it? 16:04.000 --> 16:06.000 These babies don't belong to the U.N. 16:06.000 --> 16:08.000 They never heard of the Geneva Convention. 16:08.000 --> 16:10.000 They're playing for keeps. 16:10.000 --> 16:14.000 They launch a ship packed with disease germs, 16:14.000 --> 16:18.000 navigated by a suicide pilot. 16:18.000 --> 16:22.000 These germs running rampant could plunge this country into a panic. 16:28.000 --> 16:30.000 Colonel Ward. 16:30.000 --> 16:33.000 Yeah, Hutch. 16:33.000 --> 16:36.000 How many more? 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 OK, I'll be right down. 16:39.000 --> 16:41.000 27 more cases in the last 10 minutes. 16:41.000 --> 16:43.000 16 dead. 16:43.000 --> 16:44.000 Turner! 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 You better get back to hanging. 16:46.000 --> 16:48.000 Garfield, contact General Bonamine. 16:48.000 --> 16:50.000 Tell him this field is quarantined. 16:50.000 --> 16:51.000 I want an air drop. 16:51.000 --> 16:54.000 I need every available concoction here as soon as possible. 16:54.000 --> 16:57.000 Serums, antitoxins, antibiotics, the works. 16:57.000 --> 16:58.000 Throw the whole medical book at them. 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 Yes, sir. 16:59.000 --> 17:00.000 Where are you heading, sir? 17:00.000 --> 17:02.000 The hospital. Hutch said he had something new for me. 17:08.000 --> 17:12.000 So, you see, Jeff, the last blood count shows no trace of bacteria. 17:12.000 --> 17:15.000 The germs have vanished. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 The Martian is convalescent. 17:18.000 --> 17:20.000 Phew, that means you got it beat. 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 15 hours and you got it licked. 17:22.000 --> 17:23.000 No, no. 17:23.000 --> 17:26.000 I'm afraid you're wrong, Jeff. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 This is more serious than we ever expected. 17:29.000 --> 17:31.000 What do you mean by that? You just told me... 17:31.000 --> 17:33.000 Do you know what an electroencephalograph is? 17:33.000 --> 17:34.000 I've never heard of it. 17:34.000 --> 17:37.000 It's a machine that records electrical pulsations of the brain. 17:37.000 --> 17:39.000 This morning we used it on the Martian. 17:39.000 --> 17:41.000 Any results? 17:41.000 --> 17:46.000 Enough to know that there's little chance of any one of us coming out of this alive. 17:47.000 --> 17:48.000 You're crazy. 17:48.000 --> 17:53.000 The encephalograph indicated that over a thousand wave patterns were emanating from the Martian. 17:53.000 --> 17:56.000 It's as though you focused it on a crowd. 17:56.000 --> 17:58.000 You told Hawkins the Martian was irrational. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 Now he has thousands of brains. Makes sense. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 I only know what I see. 18:03.000 --> 18:06.000 An hour ago I conducted more tests with the encephalograph. 18:06.000 --> 18:11.000 Each infected soldier gave off multiple brain-wave responses. 18:11.000 --> 18:13.000 Well, what's all this leading up to? 18:13.000 --> 18:14.000 Just this. 18:14.000 --> 18:19.000 Yesterday the Martian was crawling with germs and indicating thousands of brains. 18:19.000 --> 18:23.000 Today he's germ-free and indicating one brain. 18:23.000 --> 18:27.000 The bacteria's moved on. The brainwaves have moved on. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 Do you see what I'm trying to say? 18:31.000 --> 18:33.000 Bacteria? 18:33.000 --> 18:36.000 Brainwaves. 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 The Martians are bacteria? 18:40.000 --> 18:42.000 With brains? 18:43.000 --> 18:45.000 Fantastic. 18:47.000 --> 18:48.000 And what's this? 18:48.000 --> 18:51.000 A low-order mammal of some sort. 18:51.000 --> 18:52.000 Just an animal? 18:52.000 --> 18:54.000 This is obviously what they fed on. 18:55.000 --> 18:59.000 Hutch, send me some microscopes down to Hangar 7. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.000 We're going to go over every atom on that ship with microscopes. 19:02.000 --> 19:05.000 You look like you need some rest. Get up to my office. I'll meet you there in 15 minutes. 19:05.000 --> 19:08.000 If this is what you say it is, we've got to move fast. 19:27.000 --> 19:28.000 What's the matter with you? 19:28.000 --> 19:31.000 Sir, I want to message you down here on the double. 19:31.000 --> 19:32.000 Yes, sir. 19:32.000 --> 19:34.000 What's wrong with you? 19:34.000 --> 19:35.000 You sick? 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Sir, in your office. 19:38.000 --> 19:41.000 Captain Hutchinson, he's dead. 19:42.000 --> 19:43.000 Hutch! 19:44.000 --> 19:45.000 It's contagious. 19:45.000 --> 19:46.000 We've got to get away. 19:46.000 --> 19:48.000 You better control yourself now, Corporal. 19:48.000 --> 19:51.000 Look, outside they're all dropping. 19:51.000 --> 19:53.000 I've seen a hundred men dead. 19:53.000 --> 19:55.000 I've got to get out of here. 19:55.000 --> 19:56.000 Nothing's safe here. 19:56.000 --> 19:57.000 Now, wait a minute, Turner. 19:57.000 --> 19:59.000 There's a guard posted at every exit. 19:59.000 --> 20:01.000 They'd kill you as soon as you tried to get away. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 No. No, I want to live. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 We've got to keep the germs here isolated. 20:05.000 --> 20:06.000 I don't care. 20:06.000 --> 20:09.000 I don't care. This is my life. I don't want to die. 20:09.000 --> 20:11.000 Look, Turner. Let me get away. 20:11.000 --> 20:13.000 We can escape. Escape! 20:13.000 --> 20:15.000 Turner, come back here. Don't be a fool. 20:15.000 --> 20:17.000 Turner! Turner, come back here! 20:17.000 --> 20:40.000 Stop! Stop! Stop! 20:40.000 --> 20:42.000 Colonel Ward. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Yes, Sergeant Morgan. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 Did you use the microscopes? 20:46.000 --> 20:48.000 Ah, just as I thought. 20:48.000 --> 20:54.000 Sergeant, how many men left in your unit? 20:54.000 --> 20:56.000 Orphans, too, huh? 20:56.000 --> 21:15.000 All right, keep me posted, Sergeant. 21:15.000 --> 21:18.000 That's no good, Colonel. Nothing's any good. 21:18.000 --> 21:20.000 There's no running away from this. 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 This is your baby. 21:21.000 --> 21:24.000 Yours exclusively. 21:24.000 --> 21:26.000 Invasion. 21:26.000 --> 21:30.000 A Martian invasion like nothing you've ever dreamed of. 21:30.000 --> 21:32.000 There's only that creature in the hospital. 21:32.000 --> 21:36.000 It'll be simple, but there's nothing you can see or shoot at. 21:36.000 --> 21:39.000 Martians are bacteria. 21:39.000 --> 21:44.000 Organized and intelligent enough to build and navigate a ship through space 21:44.000 --> 21:49.000 and do it with controls so small it took a microscope to find them. 21:49.000 --> 21:53.000 Communications! Communications! 21:53.000 --> 22:02.000 No, not them, too. 22:02.000 --> 22:05.000 Bacteria, bacteria. 22:05.000 --> 22:10.000 This is their invasion, their war, planned, calculated, certain. 22:10.000 --> 22:14.000 And now one final decision has to be made, one man to make it. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 But what? How? 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 Decide quickly, they're waiting. 22:20.000 --> 22:24.000 Waiting to spread beyond the space, reaching out to the cities, 22:24.000 --> 22:28.000 ravaging the nation, the world, creeping over the whole Earth 22:28.000 --> 22:33.000 until nothing is left but a dry, scorched wasteland. 22:33.000 --> 22:41.000 A dry, scorched... 22:41.000 --> 22:44.000 Live Martians and dead Martians. 22:44.000 --> 22:49.000 That's the only way. 22:49.000 --> 23:04.000 Hey, General Bonamita, to the Pentagon and make it fast, it's urgent. 23:20.000 --> 23:23.000 Baker, 287J calling Kinnock. 23:23.000 --> 23:24.000 Come in, Kinnock. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 This is General Bonamita, Baker 287J. 23:27.000 --> 23:28.000 Can you hear me? 23:28.000 --> 23:30.000 We're approaching Kinnock Air Base. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 Over. 23:33.000 --> 23:35.000 Baker, 287J calling Kinnock. 23:35.000 --> 23:37.000 Is Colonel Wallis there? 23:37.000 --> 23:38.000 Are you getting me, Jeff? 23:38.000 --> 23:42.000 Kinnock Field. 23:42.000 --> 23:54.000 Baker, 287J, this is Colonel Ward. 23:54.000 --> 23:56.000 You're coming in loud and clear, General. 23:56.000 --> 23:57.000 What's your position? 23:57.000 --> 23:59.000 Passing over range, Jeff. 23:59.000 --> 24:00.000 Altitude 36,000. 24:00.000 --> 24:03.000 Should be reaching you in three or four minutes. 24:03.000 --> 24:05.000 How many men left? 24:05.000 --> 24:07.000 Last count came in two hours ago. 24:07.000 --> 24:09.000 Thirteen. 24:09.000 --> 24:10.000 Thirteen out of two thousand. 24:10.000 --> 24:11.000 How are you feeling, Jeff? 24:11.000 --> 24:12.000 Never mind about me. 24:12.000 --> 24:14.000 Just make sure you get directly over the field. 24:14.000 --> 24:15.000 Jeff, listen to me. 24:15.000 --> 24:16.000 There's not much time. 24:16.000 --> 24:19.000 Are you sure this is the only way? 24:19.000 --> 24:21.000 The only way. 24:21.000 --> 24:24.000 I hear you play now, General. 24:24.000 --> 24:26.000 You're right on schedule. 24:26.000 --> 24:27.000 Jeff, listen. 24:27.000 --> 24:29.000 The whole country knows what you're doing. 24:29.000 --> 24:31.000 The sacrifice won't be forgotten. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 I promise you that, Jeff. 24:33.000 --> 25:02.000 Jeff. 25:02.000 --> 25:06.000 Now let's come back to the world of today for a minute 25:06.000 --> 25:15.000 and see a man who's puzzling over something most of us are worrying about today. 25:15.000 --> 25:18.000 What should we get Mother for Mother's Day? 25:18.000 --> 25:20.000 Now let's see. 25:20.000 --> 25:23.000 It'd be nice to get her a new watch. 25:23.000 --> 25:26.000 It'd be wonderful to get her one of those new bracelet watches. 25:26.000 --> 25:29.000 She'll love that. 25:29.000 --> 25:32.000 Oh, but a bracelet watch costs $50. 25:32.000 --> 25:33.000 That's too expensive. 25:33.000 --> 25:34.000 We can't afford it. 25:34.000 --> 25:35.000 Hold on. 25:35.000 --> 25:36.000 You can afford it. 25:36.000 --> 25:37.000 And here's how. 25:37.000 --> 25:40.000 Just take Mom's old watch to your jeweler 25:40.000 --> 25:44.000 and have them put on this new golden fantasy watch bracelet by Chrysler. 25:44.000 --> 25:45.000 Why, it's like magic. 25:45.000 --> 25:49.000 It immediately transforms her watch into a beautiful new bracelet watch. 25:49.000 --> 25:51.000 But you don't pay $50. 25:51.000 --> 25:54.000 You pay just $9.95 for the fantasy watch band. 25:54.000 --> 25:56.000 You save at least $40. 25:56.000 --> 26:00.000 And you give Mother the newest, most glamorous fashion of today. 26:00.000 --> 26:02.000 Now here's a close look at it. 26:02.000 --> 26:05.000 The new Chrysler band that really becomes part of her watch 26:05.000 --> 26:11.000 that makes it high fashion and a true bracelet watch. 26:11.000 --> 26:13.000 It's Golden Fantasy by Chrysler. 26:13.000 --> 26:14.000 Now notice this. 26:14.000 --> 26:16.000 These bands expand. 26:16.000 --> 26:21.000 So when you wear a fantasy, you get all the safety and comfort of an expansion band. 26:21.000 --> 26:23.000 And practical, when you do household tasks, 26:23.000 --> 26:28.000 that expansion feature lets you slip fantasy up out of the way. 26:28.000 --> 26:33.000 And Golden Fantasy costs only $9.95, 26:33.000 --> 26:38.000 federal tax included, less than many ordinary bands. 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 So go to your jeweler. 26:41.000 --> 26:52.000 Let him make Mom's old watch into a new bracelet watch with Fantasy by Chrysler. 26:52.000 --> 26:56.000 The preceding program, originally telecast by ABC in New York, 26:56.000 --> 26:58.000 is compued by special video recordings. 26:58.000 --> 27:22.000 This is ABC, the American broadcasting company.